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What happened to the Akkadian Empire?What Empires came after Akkad?What happened to Sumer?

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1) Sack of babylona. Babylon was powerful for hundreds of yearsb. Mershilis I of the Hittites sacked itc. The Babylonians rebuilt the city, but it was less powerful

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2) Assyriaa. Religioni. The Assyrians believed that their chief god Ashur wanted them to spread his order and influence to the entire worldii. Ashur was only worshipped in Assyria iii. So Assyria was good, everywhere else was bad and had to be attacked

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b. Military technologyi. Siege towers ii. Horses iii. They built roads to get places faster

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To see the king, you had to make an appointmentThen you had to walk through these:

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iii. Then you had to walk down a hallway full of pictures like this:iv. Then you got to meet the king

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d. Policy of Exile:i. Exile: forced removal from one’s own homeland ii. When the Assyrians conquered a country, they would sometimes send the people that lived there someplace else